Improved artificial fuel



UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

* .wM. BUDD AND J. L. HUSBAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED ARTIFICIAL FUEL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,475, dated July 12, 186 1..

To all whom it near/y concern:

Be it known that we, WM. BUDD and J. L. HUSBAND, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Using Oils (rock-oil, coaloil, petroleum, or the residue of all or either) as a Portable Fuel, of which the following is they will be in about seventy-two hours, if kept at a temperature of some 60. The corn-cob will absorb one hundred and fifty per cent. of its weight in oil, and retain it, less some five per cent, if exposed to a drying wind.

The oil fuel so made will be perfectly portable and have less injurious effect upon firesurfaces than any other pieced fuel. The corncob itself, weight for weight, has more caloric than any other fuel, and, impregnated with oil, will form the most valuable locomotive fuel extant.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The impregnatingof 'corn-cobs with oil, as hereinbefore more fully set forth.

WILLIAM BUDD. J. L. HUSBAND. \Vitnesses:

WM. A. HUSBAND, H. TUNYAN. 

